Youssef Nabil

NEWS: Youssef Nabil: I won't let you die, bringing together photographs Nabil has staged over the past 15 years, will be published by Hatje Cantz in November 2008. Recent group exhibitions include Far from Home at the North Carolina Museum of Art (2008).

CURRENT EXHIBITION

CINEMA (4 September - 11 October 2008)

PREVIOUS EXHIBITIONS / WORKS

Ghada Amer, Cairo 2006 and Shirin Neshat, Casablanca 2007 on Disguise (15 May - 5 July 2008)
Never wanted to leave, self-portrait, Paris, 2007 and My time to go, self-portrait, Venice, 2007 (on Summer 2007/8)
Sleep in my arms (4 June - 7 July 2007)
Staged Realities: The studio in African photography 1870 - 2004

PUBLICATIONS

Sleep in my arms

BIOGRAPHY
Nabil was born in Cairo in 1972. He studied literature at the Ain Shams University in Cairo and started taking photographs in his early 20s. In the 1990s he worked as an assistant for David LaChapelle in New York and later for Mario Testino in Paris. Between 1999 and 2002 Nabil worked with Middle Eastern magazines photographing Arab celebrities. He had his first international solo exhibition at Centro De La Imagen in Mexico City in 2001. In 2003 he exhibited on the African Biennale of Photography in Bamako, Mali and was awarded the Seydou Keita Prize for portraiture. He was then invited by the French Ministry of Culture to participate in an artist residency programme at the Citè Internationale des Arts in Paris. In 2005 Nabil had solo exhibitions at the Third Line Gallery in Dubai and the Townhouse Gallery of Contemporary Art in Cairo. In 2006 his work was included on the following group exhibitions: Arabiske Blikke, GL Strand Museum, Copenhagen; Word into Art, British Museum, London; Images of the Middle East and 19 miradas. Fotógrafos àrabes contemporaneous, Centro Andaluz de Arte Contemporáneo, Sevilla, Spain.

Also see www.youssefnabil.com.